Here are all of Amazon’s acquisitions before Whole Foods

The next-closest acquisition in price is $1.2 billion for Zappos, which happened all the way back in 2009. Since then it’s made a few big-ticket purchases like Twitch (around $1 billion) and Kiva Systems (a bunch of robots for around $775 million), but each one still pales in comparison to the bid it made today. And probably for good reason — Amazon is buying a wildly complex operation of grocery stores and logistical operations that keep those up and running.